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Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 4h

All day long when it should have taken 5 minutes. Oh look, another captcha….

Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 15h

Sometimes I feel like my job is to retrieve 6-digit codes from websites whose security keeps me, the user, from accessing them to get my real job done. #SecurityByAnnoyance

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Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 15h

Classic Česky Krumlov pics! Love that town!

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Ann Telnaes @anntelnaes.bsky.social · 5d

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Benjamin Dreyer @bcdreyer.social · 5d

If you like yelling about misuse of the passive voice, THIS IS IT.

CNN @cnn.com · 6d

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken. https://cnn.it/4pPCXIt

37 people arrested and American kids separated from parents after ICE raid at Chicago apartments | CNN

Adults and children alike were pulled from their Chicago apartments, crying and screaming, during a large overnight raid that has left tenants and neighbors shaken.

www.cnn.com

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Ryan Enos @ryanenos.bsky.social · 7d

Somebody actually sat down and wrote these two sentences, one after another. www.washingtonexaminer.com/wp-content/u...

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Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 8d

of these camps. A calm, cold, meticulous record of innocents being sent to one of the worst places on earth. This was mass murder with cold efficiency. Thank you @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social for sharing these stories. I hope we can all make #NeverAgain a reality. (2/2)

Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 8d

Thank you for sharing all these photos, and for the podcast. I did not know that existed.

I have wondered a lot about these photos. They are so much alike: profile, looking ahead, and looking to the side while wearing a hat. At least to me, this is one representation of the pure evil (1/n)

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 9d

Follow us on multiple platforms:

* X (Twitter) | x.com/auschwitzmuseum
* Facebook | facebook.com/auschwitzmemorial
* Instagram | instagram.com/auschwitzmemorial
* Mastodon | https://mastodon.world/@auschwitzmuseum
* Threads | https://www.threads.com/@auschwitzmemorial

Amplify our voice.

Entrance to former Auschwitz I camp with "Arbeit Macht Frei" gate, flanked by barracks under a hazy sky at dawn.

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Burrito Justice @burritojustice.bsky.social · 9d

quick while the government is shut down let’s all switch to metric

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Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 10d

So it seems maga is somehow okay with statue removal now! Maybe we can finish pulling down confederate statues next? #maddow

ctrk2001.bsky.social @ctrk2001.bsky.social · 10d

Rachel Maddow just said the statue was retrieved and repaired. The artists got a new permit but of course the thin skinned administration would not let them put it up. However, you can now download the statue drawings for your three d printer. sketchfab.com/3d-models/be...

Best Friends Forever - Trump and Epstein statue - Download Free 3D model by Brian Trepanier (@CMBC)

🗽 On September 24 2025, a provocative statue titled Best Friends Forever appeared on the National Mall in Washington, D.C., depicting President Donald Trump and the late Jeffrey Epstein holding hands ...

sketchfab.com

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Iryna Voichuk @irynavoichuk.bsky.social · 11d

Russian FPV drone struck a civilian car carrying a family in Kharkiv Oblast. The father was killed. His wife and 14-year-old daughter were injured.
#HumanSafari #Ukraine

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Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 11d

Oppression theatre. Coming soon to a city near you.

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Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 11d

I’m sure it hurt the pitcher much, much worse!

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Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 11d

Turns out history museum visitors want to learn history!

“I have great confidence,” US museums pioneer Bryan Stevenson [of @eji.org ] said, “that this nation is great enough to learn the truth of its history and still succeed.”

American Association for State and Local History @aaslh.org · 11d

Experts warn censoring museums risks diminishing American standing. "I don't think we can be a nation that leads amongst other nations, if we bury our own truths," says John Chrastka, executive director of EveryLibrary.

Censoring museums risks diminishing American exceptionalism, experts warn | CNN

As museums across the country face pressures to scale back a purported “overemphasis” on difficult subjects like slavery, experts warn such moves could diminish American exceptionalism and limit national progress while sidestepping the full historical picture visitors want.

www.cnn.com

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Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 11d

Just saw a BBC report about this. Imperial War Museums in London using #AI to transcribe and index voice recordings from the museum collections. Oral histories are now searchable, making it much easier to use the recordings. Amazing! Can’t wait to see in person! www.capgemini.com/gb-en/news/c...

Digitising history to shape the future through AI with Imperial War Museums

Discover how IWM and Capgemini UK are using AI to transcribe and translate oral histories, enhancing public access to 20th-century conflict narratives.

www.capgemini.com

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Sean Blinn 🇺🇦 @themuseumguy.bsky.social · 12d

Probably not how anyone expected it to end. Things don’t always go according to plan!

Tim Stebbins @timstebbins.bsky.social · 12d

A wild finish to clinch during a roller coaster run.

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Electronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 14d

We need your help to push @governor.ca.gov to sign AB 566 into law. Let’s make it easy for Californians to control who has their data. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

California: Tweet at Governor Newsom to Get A.B. 566 Signed Into Law

We need your help to make a common-sense bill into California law. A.B. 566 intends to make it easy by directing browsers to give all their users the option to tell companies they don’t want personal

www.eff.org

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American Association for State and Local History @aaslh.org · 16d

Tomorrow we're offering an online workshop that will help you communicate with the public more effectively and build a wider understanding of the value of history and history organizations. Learn more and register at tinyurl.com/mpmb7pma.

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Auschwitz Memorial @auschwitzmemorial.bsky.social · 18d

22 September 1939 | Dutch Jewish boy, Abraham de Leeuve, was born in Zwolle.

He was deported to #Auschwitz from Westerbork on 19 Oct 1942. He was murdered in a gas chamber after the selection with his mother, Dina.
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VIDEO: The first two gas chambers near Birkenau: https://youtu.be/Rr6lF75fDmU

Vintage black-and-white family portrait featuring a child flanked by a man and a woman. The child is in the center wearing a patterned sweater.

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Jen Mercieca @jenmercieca.bsky.social · 18d

"Anger at AI, smartphones, and social media—and more specifically, at the exploitative practices of the companies operating them—has galvanized people all over the world, from the youth above, to artists and advocates and academics." www.bloodinthemachine.com/p/the-luddit...

The Luddite Renaissance is in full swing

This fall, the new luddites are rising

www.bloodinthemachine.com

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Brian Tyler Cohen @briantylercohen.bsky.social · 20d

There goes the First Amendment.

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Brian Stelter @brianstelter.bsky.social · 21d

"With an autocrat, you cannot give an inch," Stephen Colbert says on "The Late Show" tonight www.cnbc.com/2025/09/18/j...

Stephen Colbert supports Jimmy Kimmel, calls Trump an 'autocrat'

ABC pulled the "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" show off the air indefinitely over comments its host made about the alleged killer of Charlie Kirk.

www.cnbc.com

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Brian Whitmore @powervertical.bsky.social · 21d

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Dr Emma L Briant 🇬🇧 in 🇺🇸 @emmalbriant.bsky.social · 21d

The Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA) has condemned President Donald Trump’s ban on Australian ABC journalists at his UK press conference jeraa.org.au/jeraa-statem...

JERAA Statement: Defending journalism is defending democracy – Jeraa

jeraa.org.au

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